Amazing moment Netto store is emptied in FOUR MINUTES during a free food giveaway

The Netto in Lincoln opened up its doors to rid itself of any remaining stock after closing last month

By Corey Charlton

3rd August 2016, 7:33 pm

Updated: 6th August 2016, 10:42 am

A CLOSED supermarket's decision to give away all its remaining food saw it cleaned out of stock in just FOUR minutes.

In a real-life version of Supermarket Sweep, hundreds of customers armed with shopping trolleys ravaged the Netto in Lincoln.

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Shopper pour through the Netto store doors in the hope of grabbing some free food

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Many entered the store armed with trolleys ready to grab as much as they could

The store had officially shut down - but reopened from 10.30am today in order to rid itself of remaining stock.

To its surprise, droves of people turned out to collect what they could in the frozen food free-for-all.

Video of the snatch-and-grab shows people exiting the store with bags full of items, while dozens more queue up to try and get inside.

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The clean-out was triggered by a post charity Nomad Trust had earlier written on Facebook.

It stated: "They have quite a lot of frozen foods that need to go and although they would prefer it to go to charity they also realise the value in not just throwing it away so have asked me to share this with everyone.

"They will be open 10.30am to 12pm tomorrow for anyone to go down and take what's left."

One happy shopper, Darren Bonnington, 42, said: "There wasn't much left by the time I got in, but I did manage to get some frozen chips.

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Others were filmed wandering out of the store armed with bags of food

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The giveaway was held to clear the closed store of any remaining food it held

"It was like supermarket sweep, everybody had trolleys and I expected Dale Winton to turn up at the end."

Victoria Bradshaw, Project Manager for The Nomad Trust said: “We’re very, very lucky with the help that we get from the local supermarkets.

“We will probably be able to fill a 500 litre freezer full of food and the rest is going free to local shoppers.

“What then doesn’t get taken will get thrown in the bin but hopefully they won’t need to do that.

“We are really grateful that Netto has called us and offered the food to us and we are grateful for any other help that we get from the city.”

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